Kenya

From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including

• from Kikuyu kere nyaga (“white mountain”) (because it is snow-capped)^[1]
• from Kamba kii nyaa (“ostrich mountain”)
• from Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“mountain”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛn.jə/, (dated) /ˈkiːn.jə/
• (Kenya) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛ.ɲa]

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• Rhymes: -ɛnjə, (dated) -iːnjə
• Hyphenation: Ke‧n‧ya

Kenya

2. A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:

     The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.

   • 2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 July 2025:

     Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters.

• Subsahara

• Countries of the world

• Hinde, H.B. Vocabularies of the Kamba amd Kikuyu languages of East Afica
• Kenya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kenya on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Kenya on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Kenya on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Kanye, Yanke, nakey

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɛ.ni.ə], [ˈkɛ.ɲə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɛ.ni.a], [ˈkɛ.ɲa]

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• Hyphenation: Kè‧ny‧a

Kenya m or f

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyà

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyaner
• kenyansk

From English Kenya.

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Borrowed from English Kenya.

• IPA^(key): /ke.nja/

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Kenya m

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛɲɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ke‧nya
• Rhymes: -ɲɒ

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa; official name: Kenyai Köztársaság)

• kenyai

From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including

• from Kikuyu kere nyaga (“white mountain”) (because it is snow-capped)^[1]
• from Kamba kii nyaa (“ostrich mountain”)
• from Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“mountain”)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɲa/ [ˈke.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -eɲa
• Syllabification: Ke‧nya

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

Kenya (plural Kenya-Kenya or para Kenya)

1. Kenyan

Kenya (comparative lebih Kenya, superlative paling Kenya)

1. Kenyan

• “Kenya”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• Chenia (dated)

Internationalism.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.nja/

Kenya m (invariable)

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyota, keniota (“Kenyan”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyaner
• kenyansk

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyan, kenyanar
• kenyansk

Kenya m

1. (sometimes proscribed) alternative spelling of Quênia / Quénia: Kenya (a country in East Africa)

The Portuguese-Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 recommends the use of nativized placenames (instead of unadapted borrowings or partial calques) if these are established in the language. As such, the forms Quênia or Quénia are preferred.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Kenya) IPA^(key): /kɛ.ɲɑ/

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Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

   Synonym: Jamhuri ya Kenya

• Mkenya

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeːnʏa/

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Kenya n (genitive Kenyas)

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

• kenyan
• kenyansk
• kenyanska

• “Kenya”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from English Kenya or Spanish Kenia (“Kenya”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkenja/ [ˈkɛː.ɲɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈkenja/ [ˈkɛn̪.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -enja
• Syllabification: Ken‧ya

Kenya (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜈ᜔ᜌ)

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)

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Kenya

1. Kenya (a country in East Africa)